Over the last decade, we've seen Canadian stocks focused on growth thrive. And, while this has been going on, reliable Canadian companies, Canadian recession proof stocks essentially,...
Dollar Stores Dominate US Retail Store Openings The wildly uneven US economic recovery since the virus pandemic began in early 2020 has given rise to dangerous...
Huge miss. Whopping dud. Maybe it wasn’t nearly that bad?The consensus forecast had called for payroll growth in April 2021 of something like +980,000, in line...
Awash in “stimulus”, but none able to dent a semiconductor shortage which is purportedly the reason for production woes. In the US and many other places...
Unemployment due to voluntary quits remains extraordinarily low. The April employment report was considerably weaker than had generally been expected, with the economy adding just 266,000...
Global equities gained 4.2% in April (MSCI AC World index in US dollar terms), with a variety of factors underpinning the rise: accelerating COVID-19 vaccination rollouts;...
Employers across America’s largest metro areas added nearly 453,000 workers to their payrolls in March. This marked the largest monthly addition to job totals in the...
Staple Theory is a weekly look at Canada’s resource economy and the forces that shape it. Read it first in the FP Economy newsletter. Quebec Premier...
“It is unclear whether child-care issues will prevent women from returning to employment as the economy recovers,” wrote economist Betsey Stevenson (University of Michigan) in a...
Kolanovic: Most Are Unprepared For The Coming Inflation Shock For the past two years, JPMorgan's head quant and resident permabull, Marko Kolanovic, has been periodically predicting...
Official birth data from the final months of 2020 were released last night from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for...
Sports betting and sports media are converging. FanDuel is on the prowl for new companies to acquire and marquee media talents to hire. The post Sports...
Working-class women, and especially working-class mothers, have been especially hard-hit by the pandemic “shecession.” From April to December 2020, 1.45 million fewer working-class mothers were employed...
The BEA announced the advance estimate for Q1 GDP showing an increase of 6.39%. The increase was largely fueled by a massive increase in in consumption...
China Must Shutter 600 Coal Plants To Meet Its Emissions Goals, New Analysis Finds China has proclaimed bold goals of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by...
Five home furnishing stocks to buy during the COVID-19 recovery feature companies that provide household products for bedrooms and bathrooms, home decor, luxury furnishings, painting needs...
Investors AlleyOne Way to Earn Extra Cash from Financial Stocks The economy may be improving, but last week’s Federal Reserve statement made it clear that there...
US Manufacturing PMI underperforms Although the world loves it when a plan comes together, an opposite reaction occurs when it doesn’t. Such was the case overnight...
Today's housing fundamentals -- including supply, demand and overall financial conditions -- are markedly different than in 2008. The post History Not Repeating: Why Today's Housing...
Soaring Lumber Prices Add Nearly $36,000 To The Price Of A New Home: NAHB Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Skyrocketing lumber prices that...
Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem was starting down the long path to an economics PhD when interest rates breached 20 per cent in the early...
Overview: The capital markets are off to a cautious start of a week that features the central bank meetings in the UK, Australia, Norway, Poland, Czech,...
Is The COVID-19 Recession Over? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, As measured by GDP, the Covid-19 recession will soon be over assuming it isn't already....
Niall Ferguson: How Ike's 1950s America Beat The 'Asian Flu' With Science & Common Sense This essay is adapted from Mr. Ferguson’s new book, “Doom: The...
After a strong hand over from Wall Street, European stocks are pushing higher on Friday. Bourses are extending gains boosted by broadly upbeat corporate earnings and...
- by New Deal democratMarch personal income and spending were both reported this morning, completing the set of coincident indicators for the month - and both...
Futures Slide On Last Day Of April Despite Blowout Earnings And Econ Data "As good as it gets." U.S. index futures slumped on the final trading...
Classical fixed income is already a source of ‘return-free risk’ in this post-pandemic economy awash with central bank stimulus. Reflationary expectations have expedited the rise in...
by Abdelhak Senhadji, Dora Benedek, Edward Gemayel, and Alexander Tieman 中文, Español, Français, Русский The pandemic’s impact on the world’s poor has been especially harsh. COVID-19...
People have a hard time assessing risk in the best of times. Adding a world-changing pandemic with evolving and sometimes conflicting information has made personal risk...